Daughter of Montague Contest!

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“My name is Rosie, Rosaline if I’m in trouble, and I’m the daughter of Romeo and Juliet.”

You might think—why is a girl of Rosie’s youth so sarcastic about love and passion?

Let me tell you a couple of things.

1. When you have true love and wild passion and brokenhearted tragedy stuffed up your nose every day of your life, by your mother’s family, your father’s grandmother, your parents who constantly fight and reconcile and proclaim and monologue and fall into bed and have sex so loudly they keep the whole compound awake… love and passion lose a little bit of their gilding. In fact, the whole topic is positively off-putting. Also, I have six younger siblings, and someone with a little sense needs to care for them, and who else in this madly romantic family is there but me?
2. Actually, I’m not young. My parents have been trying to marry me off to some nobleman or another since I was thirteen years old. As a proper daughter must do, I curtsy and thank them, then I go to work finding these gentlemen wives who they immediately fall in love with and adore forever. I pride myself on my ability to match the aristocrats of Verona with their soul mates, while saving myself form the travesty of love and passion and all that creaking of the mattress ropes and moaning and scratching and … You know. Consequently, I’m old, almost twenty years, a heart-whole spinster renowned for the bad luck of being repeatedly jilted, condemned to living in my parents’ house until my younger brother grows up, marries, and replaces my father as the head of the household.

He’s six.  I’ve assembled all the abilities to remain single, and I’ve got all the time in the world . . .
Until the day I was summoned to my parents’ suite and heard my mother’s fateful words, “Daughter, your father and I have excellent news for you.” — A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA, June 25, 2024

Congratulations, you made it to Christina Dodd’s A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA one-day contest page! Today on Shakespeare Day (also known as Tuesday, April 23 2024) you can enter to win one of these amazing prizes (to wit: enter once and only one prize per person.) This contest is for Daughter of Montague mailing list members only, as a thank you for trusting me to take you on this new and exciting journey to Fair Verona with Rosie and the whole dramatic, poetic, comedic and romantic Montague family.

Grand prize:

One A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA influencer box (see photo—how much fun is this? Especially the quill pen. And the rose (by any other name would smell as sweet.) And the tiny swords. I want to collect all of them and use them on a cheese plate. 😊 )

Wonderful prize!

Three (3) lucky winners will win:

An advanced reading copy of A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA + sticker sheet of cuteness which includes a poison bottle sticker. Poison never included nor countenanced.

Fun prize!

Ten (10) lucky winners will win:

A sticker sheet (see description above.)

The winners will be randomly chosen and notified. They must promptly respond or another winner will be chosen. Enter by midnight PT April 24, 2024.

*My readers outside the U.S. are important to me, so should the randomizer choose a reader outside of the U.S., in lieu of the physical prize they will win a $10 Amazon gift certificate.

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